Sentences with phrase «unassuming works»

Her deceptively unassuming work has continued to exert its slow - burning power over an evermore appreciative international audience, even though there is nothing flashy or retina - sizzling about these peculiar little canvases.

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The CEOs tend to be unassuming folk who ignore management trends to concentrate on the nuts and bolts of running a business — focusing on earnings per share instead of worrying about top - line growth, for example, and working to preserve cash flow instead of increasing earnings to build shareholder value.

Hazel was practical, hard - working, and unassuming.

These unassuming little seeds, when cold pressed into an oil, work beauty wonders on skin.

With his work - rate, ability to hold the ball up, physical presence and goal threat, Mandžukić is the unassuming engine of the Juve frontline.

A quiet, unassuming, safe pair of hands he was — along with Gordon Brown and Jack Straw — one of only 3 MPs to serve in the cabinet continuously from 1997 to 2010 (more information at They work for you)

The Next Wave editors, ordinarily an unassuming bunch, also have stories to tell about the nature of their work and the yellow brick roads that brought them to the Next Wave version of Oz.

But rather than simply debunking a myth about the heirloom's diversity, Tanksley's deconstruction of the tomato genome, along with work by others, is showing how an unassuming berry from the Andes became one of the world's top crops.

He doesn't like to be mentioned on this little blog so we'll just say he is a tall, handsome, 20 - something with a very relaxed and unassuming sense of style — right now he carries a tattered nylon messenger bag to work and it's bordering on unprofessional.

The scent is light and unassuming and the product works well as I could see within a couple of weeks.

The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphries, an unassuming social worker and family woman who inadvertently stumbles upon the untold story of child migrants, who, having been told their parents had died, were piled into massive ships and brought to Australia where they endured hard work and often abuse.

Loving finds him at his most unassuming, an emotionally intuitive film that simply doesn't work as well as it should.

First - time writer - director Courtney Moorehead Balaker does more skillful work showing the resolve that Keener's unassuming heroine has to muster as the case finally lands in US Supreme Court.

She's working her way to the top of the corporate ladder off the sweat of her unassuming coworker Isabelle (Rapace): «You have talent.

Steve Carell and Tina Fey play a nice, unassuming couple in «Date Night,» and that's one of the reasons the movie works so well.

It is an unassuming, charming movie that knows its limitations and works perfectly within them.

Kephart speaks with such compassion for her characters and such passion for her work that it's hard not to be inspired by such an unassuming, accomplished woman.

A compelling look at an unassuming but outspoken, independent woman, who altered the way people worked and lived in the U.S.

Multicourse lunches and dinners at home with his wife, Paola, and his children, delectable snacks grabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, or a working meal at an unassuming neighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Commissario Brunetti, as well as Leon's countless fans.

Velocity Micro PCs are known for their unassuming design that works in the game room, living room, or board room.

If an unassuming client worked with an unscrupulous loan broker, there were few laws in place to protect the client.

In an unassuming warehouse, locals gather for an after - work beverage, fill their growlers with the latest seasonal brew, or grab a sixpack of Tofino Lager on the way to the beach.

Located on Nimmamhaemin Soi 1, this simple, unassuming cafe offers a nice, clear space to work.

Its unassuming exterior facade belies its classy, polished interior: flying under the Tune Hotels brand, colonial charm is conveyed with minimal fuss but to maximum effect courtesy of polished wooden floors, gilded art frames with local artwork and plenty of woodwork.Its 92 air - conditioned rooms come with simple amenities such as a choice of a queen - sized bed or a pair of singles and an attached bathroom with rainforest shower facilities.In - room amenities for each unit include a luggage rack, working desk, flat screen TV with cable programming, hair dryer, electronic safety deposit box and free Wi - Fi.

Their unassuming workspace doubles as an analogy for the studio itself: a group more passionate about their work than fame and recognition.

She is not known for subtlety — in either her work or her personality — but the prominent, often brow - raising British artist Tracey Emin's latest sculpture, a single bronze bird perched atop a 13 - foot pole in New York City's SoHo neighborhood, is just that: unassuming.

Together, this group of works will reveal interesting facets of the career of this accomplished, if unassuming, artist.

The two artists worked together for over 30 years, pursuing a defiantly unhurried and unassuming body of work that resists superlative or boastful claims.

Studio 10 will present «Host,» with work by Tom Butter that features an 11 - foot - tall kinetic sculpture, while Amos Eno Gallery's «Perceptual Slip» features a group show by Samantha Jones, Erik Patton and José - Ricardo Presman, with work created from discarded and unassuming materials.

Employing both found and made material, her work makes satirical and exaggerated use of de - and re-contexulized, unassuming fragments extracted from or mimicking the internet and the quotidian, speaking of an emerging, and in ways increasingly disoriented, generation born into an information matrix that tells the story of who they are and what they desire.

Plasticity represents a state of in - between - ness, or alternate suggestion, in these seemingly minimalist artworks — works that are almost unassuming in their physicality, but are guided by individual visual languages and approaches.

With unassuming candor, this selection of works portrays a close circle of the artist's friends, acquaintances and lovers, including many notable luminaries then on the cusp of ascendency, such as the photographers Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie, artists Glenn Ligon and Renée Cox, MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, writers bell hooks and Essex Hemphill, filmmakers Isaac Julian, John Akomfrah, and the artist's brother, Thomas Allen Harris.

His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form, frequently enhanced by bright colors.

Her work originates in a fascination with urban space and its most unassuming commodities.

For the next three years, the estimable Underground Museum, co-founded by husband and wife Noah and Karon Davis, will bring artworks from Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) permanent collection to its unassuming storefront in the largely black and Latino working - class neighborhoods of West Adams and Crenshaw.

If Höch's work doesn't elicit the intense pleasure we associate with the greatest art, its unassuming pleasures should not be dismissed.

Fergus Feehily is a Berlin - and Helsinki - based artist known for works that present as unassuming in scale, content, and fabrication, but with time and close examination reveal a quiet yet enormous power.

While using ordinary, unassuming materials such as cardboard and tape, the resulting finished works involve an extreme degree of aesthetic care and delicacy.

With a show of new work opening at White Cube, Bermondsey this week, the show is a timely reminder of the unassuming outlook that has distinguished him from the beginning.

The creature resurfaced (as it were) during restoration work on an otherwise unassuming Dutch landscape painting.

The effect of the show is meant to manifest itself in the range of emotion exhibited by the carefully selected works — the sense of nostalgia in Qureshi's plaintive cast concrete palm fronds from Mecca, Kley's unassuming but gorgeous cinerary urn for a dear friend, Strobert's aesthetically dazzling primer of her own body's extents, and Paine's bemused diagrams all offer traces and referents of the human experience, happily or sadly at the tail end of our unique presence as a highly evolved primate species on the earth.

The work, an unassuming 16 minutes in length and also shot in LA, focuses on a 79 - year - old David Hockney who sits, yellow - shirted, blue - jumpered, round spectacles - adorned.

His new work is as surreal, unassuming, and mischievous as ever.

His inventive works range in size from monumental kinetic and sound - producing sculptures to almost microscopic pieces created from such unassuming materials as fingernail clippings and eggshells.

Though her work shares the unassuming frankness and heady optimism found in the work of the leading First Generation New York School poets, her art parts company with those poets» sensibilities in that it never traffics in surrealism, pop culture, fragmentation or collage.

This retrospective of Adrian Piper's works consisted of an uncommonly small and unassuming set of objects that took on larger dimensions and greater depth as one examined them.

Richard Tuttle has been pursuing a poetics of unassuming beauty since the late 1960s, contributing crucially to the language of painting while eschewing its conventional trappings; Julian Schnabel is represented by a recent work in which a rain - stained lampshade becomes the occasion for meditation on accident and intention, seeking, as Elizabeth Taylor once said, to «give the maximum emotional effect with the minimum of visual movement.»

He aims to produce results that are precious, seductive and unique; works that could be mistaken as functional and at times unassuming but are nonetheless inherently valuable.

There is no formula in her work, which is undoubtedly a reason art history has largely overlooked her unassuming greatness.

When I walked into the gallery, a spare white rectangle, the works seemed quiet and unassuming.